I've been saying this for ages and use it everyday..
It's gotten a lot better from the beginning (with the addition of jumplists etc). I was and am a big fan of Plexamp, but I find the Plex integration in wiim home app now good enough that I don't bother with Plexamp anymore.
Cosign the two above posts. I also get a lot of milage out of the random sort order for albums
The biggest thing I miss from plexamp is the track radio function. I'd hoped for a workaround using playlists, but I couldn't figure out a way to save the radio playlists as standard plexamp playlists readable by wiim
The Plex search can't handle spaces for me, but the WHA native search picks up my Plex library
The biggest thing I miss from plexamp is the track radio function. I'd hoped for a workaround using playlists, but I couldn't figure out a way to save the radio playlists as standard plexamp playlists readable by wiim
The Plex search can't handle spaces for me, but the WHA native search picks up my Plex library
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It's also the customization and interface in Plexamp that people want. You can create just about the perfect player for your needs. That's not possible from within the WiiM Home app. I appreciate the work and time that has been put into this, but people that use a Plex server and Plexamp usually do so because of the features that Plex(amp) offers, and using the WiiM Home app as a limited workaround is just a deal breaker for me.
Everything seems to take more taps than in Plexamp. Switching libraries, opening Plex,… And despite what others people say, the search function doesn’t really work for me. It’s always missing something and coming up with very random suggestions. I’d assume that it would be easier to go the endpoint route and leave the design aspects to Plex. Trying to fit everything into WHA for all sorts of different platforms seems like an overload of work to me. But I’m not a software developer.
I don't miss customisation always left it as stock, don't care what it looks like as long as it works.. I think time is better spent elsewhere.
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I’m new to the forum, and I apologize in advance if my question has been asked many times before. My WiiM Ultra is not on the same network as my Plex server, so I can’t access my music library the way I can with PlexAmp. Is there a workaround, or is full Plex server support something that’s on the way?
It may or may not happen. Right now I would not be too optimistic.
I'm afraid not... it's one of the main reasons why the current implementation was flawed from the beginning.
There probably is.... VPN tunnel or similar, I have one setup on my router and wireguard client on my phone, can access anything at home is if I'm on the LAN...
Ok theoretically, yes, but have you actually got this to work with your WiiM devices then? Not really a solution I suppose, unless WiiM will support logging in to every different VPN/tunneling service :')
I'm also running Tailscale on my NAS, but just like Wireguard, it requires a client application to be running on the client side. The beauty of Plex is that their apps/web interface take care of remote access by a simple login.
I'll check now by turning off WiFi...
Yup I can use the Wiim ultra fine, notice WiFi off 4g on and wireguard is circuled....
Edit... Was playing from my Plex server too..
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If you don't have a router tha supports VPN connections I'd have a look at installing wireguard (openvpn would probably be fine too)on your Plex server box.. My Wiim app + Plex + wireguard works fine here on mobile network..
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